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To not understand the heavy makeup trend

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Moment1000 · 19/04/2018 01:59

ie girls in their teens and 20s caked in heavy stage like make up with extremely heavy eyeshadow and false lashes- for during the day as well ! Wonder how long this trend will last..

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Tattybogle89 · 19/04/2018 03:38

Glad I’m not the only one. It’s the copycat effect I can’t stand. One does it so they all do. It’s the contouring for me. So easy for it to look silly and not many people seem to have it right. Not that I’ve ever tried. When I have time to wash my hair I’m feeling excited 😂

AltheaorDonna · 19/04/2018 04:26

The eyebrows look ridiculous to me too, but then when I was young I used to think pink and purple eye shadow with electric blue mascara was a good look, so who am I do judge? Grin

MrsDilber · 19/04/2018 04:43

altheor me too! Come to think of it, I'd probably by contoured like a Playtex cross your heart bra, if I were young today 😂

purplelila2 · 19/04/2018 04:49

I'm one of 'those' that wears heavy makeup and I get eyelash extensions because I like it and makes me look and feel good.

Firstly none of your business what other women wear and how much of it in their face.

Secondly get over it!!!!

OP what a rude post. If you don't like what we put on our faces then don't look.

Are we hurting anyone ? Have we committed a crime? Is it morally wrong? No to all of this.

Nitpickpicnic · 19/04/2018 05:19

I support your bewilderment, OP. Don’t care how old it makes me sound.

Was looking at a young friend (19) recently. I’d bet money she is right on trend with her makeup (and not some badly done copied version). All I could see was the dark orange line between her face and neck (selfie view vs side view??), and the caked spider lashes. On a farm. At 10am.

What do I care about judging? I don’t. Don’t know how it benefits her, or where she got the idea that it looks good. Obviously kids her age agree with her.

All I think when I look at her (and her cohort) is how beautiful their natural skin is, best it’ll ever look. Wish they could enjoy being so beautiful without spending all their time and money covering it up, and giving themselves spots.

If anything I’m celebrating them, and sad they can’t celebrate themselves. Not bitching about them for shits & giggles.

TheDowagerCuntess · 19/04/2018 05:21

Everyone has to go through a phase that they'll look back on in 10-20+ years and go 😱

It's the law.

Yes it looks ridiculous to us middle-aged ones, but then we looked (probably far more) ridiculous to our parents back in the day.

Generation gap - that's all.

JustGettingStarted · 19/04/2018 05:55

It's just an age thing, that's true. (We did big hair!)

But, objectively speaking, it does look weird. It's very extreme. And a lot of it looks very different in profile and in daylight than I think it's intended to look.

Sofabitch · 19/04/2018 06:04

It looks weird in person...but thier lives are lived in streams of online pictures. Make up is usually heavier for pictures. They must live in constant awareness/fear of being photographed. A pressure I am very glad not to have experienced as a teen. I think if i thought as a self consious teen my photo could be taken and streamed to millions at any moment i would have worn a lot of make up too.

SleepDeprived4 · 19/04/2018 06:05

I’m in my 20’s and wear a full face of makeup that people probably think is caked on , I cannot for the life of me stand my own face when I look in the mirror it helps me out the door otherwise I’d be sitting at home depressed about how ugly I am so don’t judge

lovesugarfreejelly63 · 19/04/2018 06:14

"You are not going out looking like that, go and wash your face your make up is trowelled on" conversation I had with my mother in 1961. Not much changes.

StealthPolarBear · 19/04/2018 06:25

What is contouring?

Redglitter · 19/04/2018 06:25

A local make up artist was posting on our village fb page with examples of her work. It looked like a 5 year old had got hold of her mum's make up bag. It looked dreadful

Finallyovernow · 19/04/2018 06:26

I hear this all the time from my daughter (year8) who is 12. She tells me that some of the girls "are literally bright orange" and at break they dash to the toilets to put on even more.

Most of her friends spend around an hour each morning just doing their make-up before school and the majority no longer use school bags (as in ruck sacks) but take large handbags instead. Last week she told me that two girls had had their teeth whitened and lots have regular spray tans.

My daughter has no interest in make-up and tells me that people should like what she calls "the real me" and her friends find it weird that she has no clue about contouring. She likes trendy clothes and her hair to look nice but that's it. Having said that they still hang around together so I guess it's each to their own.

I find it quite sad that these girls do not feel confident without a mask and sad that school allows it (outstanding ofsted )

gamerwidow · 19/04/2018 06:32

I don't care what make up people wear as long as no one feels that they have to wear it. If you want to wear and you like it then that's great and you should be allowed to get on with it without criticism. I think it's a shame when people feel like they can't go out though without a million different products on their face. N.b. I know these two groups of people don't necessarily intersect.

AltheaorDonna · 19/04/2018 06:34

Nitpickpicnic my old French teacher regularly used to witter on about why did we all cover up our beautiful fresh complexions with a load of old slap. That was 35 years ago or so. She might have been right but it didn't stop us trowelling it on. Plus ca change.

gamerwidow · 19/04/2018 06:34

sleepdeprived no judgement but you will be beautiful with or without make up. Wear make up if you enjoy it but never feel you are unacceptable to the world without it. You are enough on your own.

Shadow666 · 19/04/2018 06:36

Contouring is like Kim Kardashian. They use a darker color to draw in contours around their cheekbones etc and cover with foundation. Drag queens tend to go for the same look.

kalinkafoxtrot45 · 19/04/2018 06:37

It does look awful. Those eyebrows in particular. But I don’t think we were any better in the 80s with our electric blue eye make up.

joystir59 · 19/04/2018 06:37

I think about how skin must feel under that layer of make up. I wouldn't like that smothered feeling. What happens when you sweat?

StealthPolarBear · 19/04/2018 06:37

Thanks shadow

Shadow666 · 19/04/2018 06:37

Also, I’m not judging either. I don’t know where judging comes into it. I just feel it’s a very heavy look and the eyebrows freak me out. I don’t judge the people at all.

Maddiemademe · 19/04/2018 06:38

I really wish everyone who likes to judge and belittle someone’s appearance should post a picture of themselves. That way we can do the same. Fancy it OP?

MaisyPops · 19/04/2018 06:39

What is contouring?
Using light/dark shades to sculpt the face (which should be shades linked to your skin tone)

People have been doing it for years, just now the trend seems to be to have a silver stripe on your cheekbone and an orangey brown stripe in tjr hollow of your cheek so everyone can see that you are contouring

Shadow666 · 19/04/2018 06:39

I do judge people who drive Hummers though.

gamerwidow · 19/04/2018 06:44

I judge people who chew gum with their mouth open, hey no ones perfect.

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